Dispenses, disseminations and other impediments to marriage formation in the ecclesiastical court of Toluca

Abstract

The main aim of this paper is to study the prenuptial conflicts that took place under the colonial order, through a set of the judicial summons from the stock of the ecclesiastical court of Toluca. To this end, marriage waivers processed between 1684 y 1784 by the parishioners of the city of Toluca and nearby towns, as well as the disputations caused by oppositions and unfulfilled promises of marriage during the first half of the 18th century, have been analyzed.